A discussion with mexico-based journalist and author Dawn Paley. Paley offers a critical outlook on Obama’s foreign policy legacy in Latin America, particularly looking at the «War on Drugs»in Mexico and the ways that violence has spiked for rural and urban communities under the US-backed Merida Initiative.

Matt’s Music Mix !

Debriefing Elsipogtog – an Anatomy of Struggle. In 2013, an unlikely coalition of indigenous land defenders and Acadian and anglo settlers, kicked out fracking company SWN from Mi’kmaq territories in New Brunswick. We’ll hear a recent presentation in Montreal by Mi’kmaq land defender Annie Clair and Journalist Miles Howe of the Halifax Media Co-op.

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